Hello everyone in the world of RWBY FanFiction! StarWars again with another BGND chapter! This one will span the second half of 'Ruby Rose', and 'A Shining Beacon' parts 1 and 2. Oh! And I forgot to mention in the last chapter, but A.S.H.S.S. stands for 'Advanced Sentient Home Security System'. And to avoid confusion, my fanfic's title and the team's name is suppose to be pronounced "Burgundy". Also I forgot to mention this in the Brown Trailer, but the only thing I own is my OCs. I don't own anything. I mean, I don't really own the plot either, it's just the RWBY canon timeline with my OCs in it. So with that out of the way, let's get to it!
BGND: Welcome to Beacon
(Airship to Beacon, one week later)
Patrick was enjoying the view of Vale from the ship. He still couldn't believe that a week ago, Headmaster Ozpin himself came to his house to admit Patrick to Beacon early. Yet, there he was on his way to Beacon when he should be in his final year at Focus with his brother and friends.
'I'm sure they'll be fine...' Patrick told himself.
"Excuse me?" Someone in Beacon's colours asked, trying to get the redhead's attention, "Are you Patrick Browne?"
"Yes? Can I help you?" Patrick politely answered.
"I was just wanting to get confirmation that this crate is your's." The Beacon staff member said as he show the Vigilante a scroll with a picture a crate with the words 'Do Not Rattle' spray-painted on it.
"Yep, that's mine." Patrick confirmed.
"OK, that's all my superiors wanted to know. I'll let get back to enjoying the view, Mr. Browne." And with that, the employee left Patrick to his devices.
Patrick was about to look back at the view when a news report came up, perking his interest, "The robbery was led by the nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evades authorities."
'Along with the Vigilante,' Patrick said in his head, 'That slippery snake has been slipping through my fingers every time I ran into this week! On the bright side, at least he didn't the Atlesian Knights I liberated.'
Then, A hologram of Glynda Goodwitch appeared, "Hello, and welcome to Beacon! My name is Glynda Goodwitch. You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world." Glynda said before disappearing.
Then the passengers' attention was drawn to the Beacon Academy, Patrick being one of them. Unfortunately for him, his attention was drawn away again when a blond guy, wearing some dinged-up armour over a black hoodie, jeans and black sneakers, and looking like he was trying his best to hold in his lunch bumped into him. He about to voice his irritation at him when he saw a girl in black and red with a red hooded cape, black hair with red at the tips and silver eyes, completely captivating his attention.
'Well that's someone you don't see everyday.' Patrick thought, but then back to his senses, 'Snap out of it, dude! Keep staring and she'll think you're a creepy stalker before you get a chance to talk to her!'
As soon as the airship landed, Patrick, along with the rest of the of the passengers left the ship. As he got off, he walked past the guy who bumped into him, who now had his head in a trash can while upchucking whatever was in his stomach. Patrick decided to tap 'Vomit Boy' on the shoulder to get his attention and gave him a package of mints, "You're gonna need this." and left him without saying a word. Patrick then started walking aimlessly around the campus.
After a few minutes of wandering around the campus grounds, Patrick was looking around, when all of a sudden, there was a sneeze that was followed by a huge explosion that, from what Patrick could tell, came from the courtyard.
'Last I checked, Dylan and Boom Stick weren't here, so what the hell caused the explosion?' Patrick thought as he ran to the explosion site.
A few seconds later, Patrick arrived at the courtyard to find three girls; one with black hair, and black and white attire and a black bow on her head, holding a bottle of Fire Dust in one hand and a book in another, a platinum-haired girl that Patrick, as well as most people, knew as Weiss Schnee, heiress of the Schnee Dust Company, who was yelling at the silver-eyed girl Patrick saw on the airship. After Schnee and 'Black Bow' left the area, the silver-eyed girl just flopped over and Patrick ran up to her to give her some help, only to run into a predicament as 'Vomit Boy' decided to do the same thing. In the end, they decided to grab one of the girl's arms to lift her up.
"There... you... go!" Patrick said as he and the armoured blond helped her up, "Well, I believe introductions are in order. Patrick Browne, at your service."
"I'm Jaune." 'Vomit Boy' said as he introduced himself.
"Ruby." The Silver-eyed girl replied, then said to Jaune, "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"
Patrick took a whiff at Jaune's breath, "Yep, smells like it. Didn't you use the mints I gave you?"
"No." Jaune said as he hung his shame and popped a mint into his mouth.
"OK. Also, Ruby? That was my second guess." Patrick said as he returned his attention to the cloak-wearing girl.
"What was your..." Ruby asked but realized what it was, "Let me guess, 'Silver' or something like that?"
"Pretty much."
So, Patrick, Ruby and Jaune began walking around the Academy grounds while talking amongst themselves.
"All I'm saying is motion sickness is a much more common problem than people let on!" Jaune complained, resulting in Patrick facepalming himself while trying to suppress his laughter and Ruby starting to giggle.
"Look, I'm sorry! 'Vomit Boy' was the first thing that came to mind." Ruby apologized as she was still giggling.
"And I thought you just had something bad for lunch." Patrick said to the Armoured Blond.
"Oh, yeah? What if I called you Crater Face?" Jaune retorted to Ruby.
"OK, three things. One: I did not a crater in the courtyard, so that nickname can't work. Two: The only other way that can work is if she had acne all over her face. And three: I'm pretty sure I heard a sneeze before the explosion happened, so I think 'Snot Cannon' would be more accurate." Patrick defended the crimsonette, who gave him the stink eye when he said 'Snot Cannon', "Hey! I'm just being honest!"
"Still, the explosion was an accident!" Ruby added.
"Well, the name's Jaune Arc! Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue - ladies love it!" Jaune said with confidence, only to have Patrick scoff in disbelief.
"Do they?" Ruby asked skeptically.
Jaune responded with, "They will! Well, I-I hope they will. My mom always says that... Never mind." Ruby just giggled while Patrick rolled his eyes in disbelief.
After a few seconds of awkward silence later, Ruby piped up, "So... I got this thing!" As she said that, she pulled out from behind her waist, what looked like a red and black briefcase, which transformed into a scythe almost twice her size and stabbed the blade into the ground, startling the Redhead and Jaune.
"Whoa! Is that a scythe?" Jaune asked.
"It's also a customizable, high-impact sniper rifle." Ruby confirmed.
"A-wha...?" Jaune dumbfoundedly asked, causing Patrick to pinch his his nose in annoyance.
"It's also a gun." Both Patrick and Ruby said to the armoured blond, Patrick sounding annoyed, while Ruby was more positive.
"Oh! That's cool!" Jaune said, realising what it was.
"Mind if I examine it?" Patrick asked the Red Reaper politely.
"Alright..." Ruby agreed hesitantly as she handed the scythe to the Vigilante, "But be gentle with her."
"Her? You gave it a name?" Patrick asked.
"Yep, her name is Crescent Rose." Ruby told him.
Patrick then proceeded to do some tricks with the scythe, before giving it back to it's owner, "Amazingly light considering the size it is. But, not my cup of tea due to the fact that it's meant to be left-handed, but that just your preference."
"Since you know so much about weapons, why don't you show us yours, Patrick?" Ruby asked the Redhead.
"Well, I've got a few." Patrick said as he took out what looked like a brown and beige cylinder handbag, but as soon as he pulled the handle, it transformed into a heavy machine gun, "This is my pride and joy, Chain-Breaker. It's a high-powered machine gun that..." Then Patrick grabbed the grip, made it parallel with rest of the weapon and pulled it further, creating a five foot pole with the main part of the gun being perpendicular with the pole, while the barrels of machine gun retracted to the gun, making a head of a hammer, "Is also a rocket rocket-powered warhammer."
"Awesome..." Ruby said while drooling over Chain-Breaker, then recomposed herself, "but you said you had a few."
"I did." Patrick then pressed a button on Chain-Breaker, causing it to get compacted again, "Next are my LaserMores." Patrick then pulled out of a couple of holsters on his hips a couple of silenced brown and beige pistols, "These are .50 CAL pistols that can turn into..." Patrick then flicked the pistols upwards, making barrels parallel with the grip. Then he pulled the triggers, creating a couple of three foot long blades of yellow light, occasionally sparking with electricity, "A couple of Plasma swords."
"Oh... neat!" Ruby said while looking at the NeverMores in awe.
"Um... you're gonna need a bucket before I continue." Patrick told the Rose Reaper jokingly, "LaserMore's blade's properties are determined by the clip that's in it. At this moment, it has Electricity Dust clip in it; that's why you occasionally see sparks coming off the blades. Now, if I put in a Fire Dust clip..." Patrick then deactivated the swords and switched them to pistol mode, swapped out the clips, and switched them back to sword mode again, "This happens," When Patrick activated the plasma swords again, the blades were red and were on fire.
"Cool..." Ruby said, weaponstruck.
"Next, is my Excalibattle Rifle." Patrick put away his LaserMores and pulled out a brown and beige battle rifle, "It's a Battle Rifle with three firing modes; Semi-automatic, three-round burst fire and fully automatic. It also..." Then with a push of a button, a four foot blade sprouted from above the barrel and the stock turned into a hilt of a sword, "can turn to a longsword. Like my LaserMores, the blade's properties depend on the clip that's in it."
Patrick then reverted Excalibattle Rifle to Battle Rifle mode, put it into it's holster and grabbed a brown and beige pump-action shotgun, "This one isn't that special. Scatter Master is just a high-caliber pump-action shotgun that can turn into a bat." Then he put Scatter Master into it's holster, "And that's the arsenal of Patrick Browne."
"Cool." Ruby said, not in a daze, then turned attention towards Jaune, "So... Jaune, what've you got?"
"Oh! I, uh... I got this sword." Jaune said as he unsheathed a sword with a blade the same length as LaserMore's Plasma blades and looks like it has seen many conflicts.
"Oooohh!" Ruby said as she looked at the sword.
"May I see it?" Patrick asked Jaune politely, who did so. Once he was given the sword, Patrick started inspecting it the same way he examined Crescent Rose, "Wow! This is an elegantly made sword! Lightweight, yet durable." Patrick gave the sword back to the Armoured Blond.
"Yeah, and I've got a shield too!" Jaune announced as he turned the scabbard of his sword into a white shield with a gold trim and a couple of golden crescents in the middle of the shield. Like the sword, the shield looks like it has seen better days.
"So what do they do?" Ruby asked as she poked Jaune's shield, causing it to retract and expand several times before Jaune made it a scabbard again.
"The shield gets smaller, so when I get tired of carrying it, I can just... put it away..." Jaune explained.
"OK, to be honest, I think that is just a waste of a perfectly good shield. I mean, if you have it on our back, you'd be able to deflect ranged attacks as you're making a tactical retreat." Patrick expressed his opinion.
"Also... wouldn't it weigh the same?" Ruby pointed out.
"Yeah, it does..." Jaune said defeatedly.
"Well, I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons, so... I guess I did go a little overboard when designing it." Ruby said while giggling.
"That's nothing!" Patrick countered, "You should see my brother's weapon. It's basically a rocket launcher that can create an explosion even in melee combat."
"Wait - you made those!?" Jaune asked.
"Of course!" Ruby said with confidence, "Everyone at Signal forge their own weapons!"
"I may to copy off of some blueprints, but other than that, all of my arsenal was made with my two hands." Patrick told Jaune, "Didn't you make yours?"
"It's a hand-me-down. My great-great-grandfather used it to fight in the war." Jaune explained the origins of his sword and shield.
"Then... it's not a 'hand-me-down'," Patrick countered the blond knight, "It's a family heirloom."
"Well I like it!" Ruby complimented the Shield Scabbard, "Not many people have an appreciation of the classics these days."
"Yeah, the classics..." Jaune as he sheathed the sword.
"So, why did you guys help me out back there? In the courtyard?" Ruby asked her male companions.
"Eh, why not?" Jaune replied, "My mom always says, 'Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.'"
"I wanted to make a good first impression and be a gentleman." Patrick answered.
"Hmm..." Ruby hummed as she looked around, "Hey, where are we going?"
"Oh, I don't know! I was following you." Jaune argued.
"Hang on, I got it." Patrick told them as he pressed a button on the scroll that was strapped onto his left wrist, "A.L.I.S, where are we supposed to go?"
"Alice? Who's Alice?" Ruby asked the Vigilante.
"Oh! A.L.I.S. is my A.I.. It stands for Advanced Logistics and Intelligence System. She lets me know what's going on in battle and other stuff." Patrick explained.
"You're supposed to go to the auditorium, in the middle of the campus grounds." A.L.I.S. told Patrick through his 'wrist-scroll'.
"Alright, thanks A.L.I.S.!" Patrick thanked his A.I., the looked at other companions, "Well, shall we?"
So, Patrick, Ruby and Jaune started to walk to the auditorium. As they were heading there, A.L.I.S. asked her master through an earpiece in his ear, "Why did you tell them that the 'A' in my name stood for 'Advanced' when it actually stands for 'Armour'?"
"To avoid having to show them the armour." Patrick whispered into his earpiece.
"Oh right! You don't want to put them in danger by telling them you're the Titanium Vigilante?" A.L.I.S. understood.
A few minutes later, the three latecomers entered the auditorium, filled to the brim with people. Then, a girl with blond hair that reaches her knees wearing a tan crop-top jacket with golden brown piping and short, puffy sleeves with black cuffs that feature two gold buttons, a low cut yellow crop top with a black flaming heart on the upper left underneath said jacket, black short shorts, brown, knee-high boots and orange over-the-knee socks, an orange infinity scarf and black fingerless gloves, as well as yellow bracelets started waving at Ruby.
"Ruby! Over here! I saved you a spot!" The blond shouted to Ruby.
"Oh! Hey, I-I gotta go! I'll see you after the ceremony!" Ruby said to her male companions before going to the blond.
"I... don't really have anyone to talk to besides you, Ruby..." Patrick said to the Red Reaper, "Mind if I come with?"
After thinking it over for a bit, Ruby nodded, "...Alright, I guess you can come with me." Then Patrick walked over to the blond with Ruby.
"Hey! Who's your friend?" The Blond asked Ruby.
"Oh! Yang, this is Patrick Browne, one of the people I ran into today. Patrick, this is my big sister, Yang Xiao Long." Ruby introduced her sister and her newest friend.
"Pleased to meet you, Yang." Patrick greeted as he extended his hand to Yang.
"Nice to meet you too, Patrick." Yang said as she shook Patrick's hand, "Good to know my little sis has someone other than me to talk to."
"YANG!" Ruby yelled at her sister in embarrassment.
"Sorry, couldn't help it." Yang apologized, "So, other than meeting Patrick, how's your first day going?"
"You mean since you ditched me and I exploded?" Ruby accused her sister
"Yikes! Meltdown already?"
"No, I literally exploded a hole in front of the school! And there was some fire, and I think some ice...?" Ruby started rambling.
"Wait, what hole?" Patrick asked himself while Ruby was rambling.
"Are you being sarcastic?" Yang asked while grinning from ear to ear.
Ruby scoffed, "I wish! I tripped over some crabby girl's luggage, and then she yelled at me, and then I sneezed, and then I exploded, and then she yelled at me again, and I felt really, really bad, and I just wanted her to stop yelling at me!"
"You!" The girl in question yelled at Ruby, startling both Ruby and Patrick, resulting in Ruby jumping into her sister's arms.
"Oh, God, it's happening again!" Ruby screamed.
"Ah! Where did you come from!" Patrick yelled at the same time as the Red Reaper.
"You're lucky we weren't blown off the side of the cliff!" Schnee said, accusingly.
"Oh my god, you really exploded..." Yang realized as her sister got down from her arms.
"It was an accident." Ruby said to Weiss, "It was an accident!" then the Heiress held up a "DUST for Dummies and other Inadequate Individuals" pamphlet to Ruby, "What's this?"
"The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product. Although not mandatory, the Schnee Family highly encourages their customers to read and familiarize themselves with this easy to follow guide to Dust applications and practices in the field." Weiss rambled off to very confused Ruby.
"Wow..." Patrick said, unimpressed, "Does everyone at SDC have to memorize that?" which received an icy glare from the Heiress.
"You really wanted to make things up to me?" Weiss asked the Red Reaper.
"Absolutely?" Ruby answered, unsure.
Weiss handed Ruby the pamphlet and told her, "Read this, and never speak to me again." Patrick then plucked the pamphlet out of Ruby's hands and began to read it.
"Look, uh, it sounds like you two just got off on the wrong foot." Yang said, trying to defuse the situation, "Why don't you start over and try to be friends, okay?"
"Yeah! Great idea, sis!" Ruby agreed as she held her hand out to the Heiress and she cleared her throat "Hello, Weiss! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We can go shopping for school supplies!"
"Yeah!" Weiss said, sarcasm dripping from her tone, "And we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys, like tall, blond, and scraggly over there!" She then points at Jaune off in the distance, who perked up at the mention of his name.
"Wow, really?!" Ruby said with enthusiasm in her eyes.
Weiss responded with a flat and unamused, "No."
"Wow..." Patrick said as he put the pamphlet he had in his satchel, "You're a real buzz killer, you know that?"
Weiss was about to tell the Vigilante off when everyone's attention was drawn to the stage, where Professor Ozpin is readying the microphone, with Glynda beside him. "I'll... keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills, and when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."
As Ozpin left the stage, Glynda stepped up to the mic to give her speech "You will gather in the ballroom tonight; tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."
"He seemed kind of... off." Yang said bluntly.
"It's almost like he wasn't even there." Ruby agreed.
The subject was changed when Jaune piped in "I'm a natural blond, you know!" which resulted in Weiss and Patrick facepalming themselves.
(Later that night, Beacon Ballroom)
Patrick was in his PJs, which was of just a simple beige long sleeved shirt and brown PJ pants, with a sleeping bag under his arm, walking over to an empty spot in the ballroom, which just happened to be where the Rose-Xiao Long sisters were sleeping. So, he got his sleeping bag ready and flopped down on the sleeping arrangement.
"What about Jaune and Patrick?" Yang asked her sister, continuing their conversation, They're... nice! There you go! Plus two friends! That's a 200% increase!"
"Pretty sure Weiss counts as a negative friend. Back to one..." Ruby pointed out, feeling depressed.
"There's no such things negative friends! You just made two friends and one enemy!" Yang countered, which resulted in her getting a dog-shaped pillow to the face by her sister, and hit in the head by a stuffed Jack Russell toy, "Ah! The back of my head!" Yang then rolled over to see who hit her, which was Patrick, giving her the stink eye, "What!?"
"One of those friends is trying to sleep." Patrick said in a calm fashion, "So if you please quiet down, that would be great." Patrick then put in earbuds, started listening to music on his scroll, rolled over and went to sleep.
"Anyway..." Yang rolled back over to Ruby, "So, Patrick's kinda good-looking."
"I guess..." Ruby agreed, not really paid attention to Yang's statement, "While he were having dinner, he and I were talking. Apparently, he too got admitted to Beacon early, though it was only one year early. Why we was admitted early, I don't know."
"Cool! He also has a lot of weapons as well. I guess he's a weapons fanatic like you." That statement was returned with another pillow to the face, "Maybe you too can be best friends in the future." Yang then had a devilish grin on her face, "Or maybe something more..." Another pillow to the face was the response.
"Yang! That's a little too soon, don't you think?!" Ruby scolded her sister, "We just met! Don't you try anything, got it?"
"Yeah, yeah, I promise..." Yang said as she crossed her fingers behind her back, but in her head, she said 'Yet.'
Well, that's 'Welcome to Beacon'! for those not aware of what's going on, I will be making Patrick and Ruby into a couple, but not instantly. Other than that, the rest of the ships will be the canon ones (Arkos, StormPower (What I think the ship name should be for Ren and Nora because StormFlower is the name of Ren's SMGs, and storms tend to generate lightning, which is what gives Nora more power since she's based off Thor) and I'm on the fence whether or not I should have either Black Sun or Bumblebee because neither of them have been confirmed in canon. And before you White Rose shippers get mad at me, I am a White Rose shipper myself, but this is my own fanfic, so bugger off! My fanfic, my rules!
Also I've listened to the Volume 4 soundtrack, and I have a few things to say.
One: I also watched JAC OneManBand's video of Bmblb and I agree with him; the song isn't about the Bumblebee ship or Yang's motorcycle with the same name, I think it's for ALL ships. So every shipper came can use it for their ship, not just the Bumblebee ship.
Two; I cried the first time I heard the somber part of Let's Just Live... GODDAMNIT WILLIAMS! WHY MUST YOU PLAY WITH MY HEARTSTRINGS! other than that, I loved it.
Three; every time I listen to This Life Is Mine, I imagine a few people with a drum set and a couple of electric guitars crash the concert in 'Punished'.
Four; Bad Luck Charm is a perfect way to describe Qrow's Misfortune semblance.
Five; Armed and Ready should be Yang's new theme. It describes her struggles so well!
Now, with that rant out of the way, The next chapter will be the entire Initiation... so it's probably gonna really long... but you will be able to meet the rest of BGND. Well, that's all I have to say, this is StarWars signing off.
